Stormin' Norman wrote in
:

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:35:53 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

Never having seen this, I dropped the picture into Google images and
discovered this is:

"Dayton-Wright RB-1 (Rinehart-Bauman model one), also known simply as
the Dayton-Wright Racer"

One of the first aircraft that incorporated retractable landing gear.

Here is more information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-Wright_Racer

Thanks for the post Mitchell.



Even the Spirit of St Louis
afforded a better cockpit view
than that. What a nightmare that
must have been to fly.